David is a marketing expert with a successful agency which has scaled significantly since COVID. He was born and grew up in Nigeria before moving to Canada. David established a painting and decorating business in Canada whilst he was at University, scaled this up to $1m of turnover. David now generates leads for clients at scale. He is currently co…

Donnie is the founder of Six Berries and and he is a technology focussed founder, start-up advisor, NED and strategy consultant. Matt and Donnie have a weekly private mastermind, and we thought it would be fun to have a year end summary on the Growth Show. Topics: - Losers in 2022 - Winners in 2022 - Chat GPT - https://chat.openai.com/ - AI - Crypt…

Anthony Villis is a serial entrepreneur and founder of the multi-award winning wealth management company First Wealth LLP, which recently won the coveted Chartered Financial Planning firm of the Year Award, 2021/2022 and has recently secured Certified B Corp Status. Anthony has recently launched several new businesses the first being Open Advice (h…

Dr Steve Day is a former GP who built a property investment portfolio and then decided to explore how he could extrapolate himself from the business and built a series of systems and processes whilst working from Sweden where he now lives. Steve bought his first investment property when he was in his early 20’s, and made some “bad” business decisio…

Andi Cooke co-founder of Whitebox Property Solutions joins Matt Lenzie for the latest episode of the Growth Show. By way of background Andi is a former tradesman, who built his own house, which gave him a taste of the potential of property development, he subsequently team up with Lloyd Girardi, and I think its probably fair to say that neither of …

Matt Belcher is a serial entrepreneur who has built a number of successful businesses over his career. Matt moved to the USA around 10 years ago, and has subsequently launched a new business called CalTier, which is a prop tech company which is seeking to change the way that people around the world invest into Real Estate and other asset classes. C…

Charlotte goes by the Instagram handle of Accidental Female Developer, and has a background in PR. Charlotte faced massive adversity at the start of her property journey she took the very brave decision to take on the development projects which were underway and has taken these through to completion. Charlotte has turned this situation around despi…

Craig Boddington is a highly successful entrepreneur who has bought and sold lots of companies during his career. He sold some businesses and retired and then decided to move to Florida where he has set up Blackhouse Private Equity, which is a private equity group investing into global mergers and acquisitions. Craig is a 5th generation entrepreneu…

Uzzi is a seasoned entrepreneur who has previously worked with LG Electronics as a project manager, then moved to Smarter which is a connected home company. Uzzi launched GeoSmart Pro which is a company which manufactures smart home products. Uzzi has a young child during the summer and was trying to keep the room temperature consistent, he therefo…

Dave Hartnett joined the latest edition of "The Growth Show", Dave is a property developer has amassed a £50m GDV portfolio of property during the Covid lockdowns, spending many hours identifying properties and securing JV's with landowners. Dave specialises in approaching landowners off-market and entering into joint ventures with landowners to ad…

Mark Potter is the founder of Ernest Hardy Ltd which is a property development company. Mark left school at 14 and has built up a number of businesses over the years, including a gun shop, sold some tanks and other military vehicles and built up his own property portfolio. Marks "can do" attitude sets him apart from other entrepreneurs, and this is…

Hiplok co-founders, John Abrahams and his colleague Ben Smith are product designers by trade and cyclists by heart. With over 25 years combined design and cycle industry experience, they set out to change security for cyclists. They wanted to protect what they love by bringing their design expertise and rider experience to deliver innovative, quali…

Neil Fillary is an ex-investment banker and is currently an investor into cryptocurrencies both on a personal basis as well as running a portfolio of investments and companies in the space. Neil also runs a multi-family office platform, which provides a real insight into what ultra High Net Worth investors are thinking about digital currencies. Nei…

Billy Schwer is a former lightweight IBO Super Light Weight champion boxer, who has subsequently forged a carer as a performance coach and trainer. Billy is the author of the book “Man Up”, which provides his steps, using a boxing analogy, of how to overcome challenges in life. Billy has overcome significant difficulties in his own life, following …

Caroline Syson is a serial entrepreneur and founder of PocketPA, which is a piece of software which Caroline has developed from scratch, initially to help her daughters beauty business and is now in the process of rolling out to other micro businesses. Caroline explains the challenges that she has faced building this business, even having to sell h…

Natalie Allport joins Matt Lenzie for the latest epsiode of the Growth Show, here Natalie and Matt discuss lots of different breathing techniques, including Wim Hof, Buteyko breathing, plus training in the snow, cross-fit, snowboarding and more. Natalie is a former Canadian National Team Athlete, and has subsequently turned her attentions to cross-…

Jeremy Harbour is the founder of Unity Group Holdings a Singapore based private equity group, and The Harbour Club, which is a business acquisitions (M&A) training programme. Jeremy has acquired 100+ companies in what he calls agglomerations, which are consolidations of complimentary businesses which he then seeks to list on the stock market. He re…

Matt Baker is a former music teacher and he has subsequently gone on to build his own property investment business, specialising in HMO's (homes of multiple occupancy), and has set up a HMO training platform, The HMO Platform and is also Co-Founder of co:home. Matt discusses his journey from setting up his music tuition business and the realisation…

Shack Baker is a serial entrepreneur who has had a variety of different careers, including being a highly successful musician, setting up and running a clothing brand an most recently a property investor. Shack has been investing in property for the past 3 and half years, and has built up a £2.5m portfolio in that period of time. Shack grew up in S…

Stephen Page is a successful entrepreneur who has built and exited his own business, he has subsequently turned his hand to launching a fund, with Startup Funding Club, now called SFC Capital, which is a multi-award winning FCA regulated fund manager specialising in investing into early stage companies through the SEIS and EIS. Startup Funding Club…

Lloyd Girardi joins Matt Lenzie for the first Growth Show, discussing all things property, investment, personal growth goal setting and much more. Lloyd is the co-founder of Whitebox Property, which is a property training company helping property developers get their projects moving forwards, and is also a property developer with a portfolio which …